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When everything shut down in the early days of the pandemic Lauren Aldous says many Realtors ® were left wondering, “What are we supposed to do now?” She describes the initial lockdown as a reflective and emotional time due to the uncertainty of what impact COVID-19 would have on the real estate market. “So we’re all at home sanitizing everything and you have time to go through levels of emotions like depression, sadness, doom and gloom,” she said. “No one has ever lived through this and no one knows what to do. It’s all very scary.” She says spent the first week or two lying on the couch worrying for herself as well as those she knew who were sick. She also says she contemplated the world and life while asking herself serious questions like, “Will I ever be able to work again? Will anyone be able to afford a house?” “It was a real ‘Come to Jesus’ moment for me,” Lauren said. “I started thinking, ‘what is it in my life that I wish I would have done?’” What she realized is that she wished she could have helped more people. Like many other buyer’s agents Lauren Aldous loves helping people find their dream home. But another aspect of the business Lauren realized she also enjoys is helping other agents. “I started thinking about what’s lacking in brokerages,” she said. “I assisted new agents out there who were left not knowing what to do.” She thought back to when she first started out in bigger brokerages and remembered how difficult it was. “There’s no one there to help, no one there to tell you anything,” she said. “You’re told things like ‘work your sphere’ but what does that even mean? They expect you to already know what that means.” This brought her to a big decision: Lauren decided to start her own real estate brokerage. “I started studying what it means to actually teach others how to do well in sales, what to say, what not to say, there’s so much involved,” she said. “I did the research, pros and cons, why brokerages fail, thought out all those equations.” Despite the challenges to opening a brokerage during a global pandemic with everyone working remotely, Lauren was able to complete the licensing requirements and open Urban Avenue Realty within just a few months. She says she wants to keep her brokerage small. Right now she has just two agents following her with another potential two on the way. She says business for her new brokerage is going well. “We’re so busy right now it’s astonishing,” she said. “It’s one of the busiest years I’ve ever had. In between helping buyers I’m also training and teaching new agents negotiating tactics and how to get clients what they want for best possible price.” She also believes that teaching agents to work well with other agents is important. “If we can’t work well with other agents then we’re not giving clients the proper service,” Lauren said. “The home buyers and sellers are the end result of who we’re helping but if we can produce caring and customer service-oriented agents that is my number one goal.” Above all, Lauren says she wants to be the brokerage that helps people in a positive way with true genuine care for clients. “They are not commissions walking around on two feet. They are people,” she said. “People need more help and I want to be the person to help.” October 4, 2020 New on the Market: Custom 4 Bedroom in Camas with stunning view of the river! SEE PAGE F5 Over 40+ Homes in today’s Homes for Sale Directory. SEE PAGES F6 – F7 For today’s Classifieds & Jobs section SEE PAGES F9 & F10 NW Natural New Homes Tour happening this weekend! SEE PAGE F3 Division that Multiplies (Our Plants). SEE PAGE F8 LOCAL REALTOR ® STARTS HER OWN BROKERAGE DURING GLOBAL PANDEMIC by KRISTIN DORSETT, Special Features Writer, The Columbian C : 360.607.4100 [email protected] USA-Relocate.com #1 Broker in Pacific NW, #5 Broker in the U.S., #26 Broker in the World 2017 Stats TERRIE’S REAL ESTATE EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE ARE UNMATCHED! Premier OR & WA Broker A LEADER IN REAL ESTATE Thinking of Selling? I Have Buyers! Text or Call me, I answer my phone! A Simple Fall Front Porch I have always been a rule follower. I'm the only girl with two brothers, so I think that comes with the territory. For those of you who know me, I don’t think this comes as a surprise. But most years when it comes to fall decor, I just can't bring myself to follow the rules. I know it's supposed to be yellow and brown and red. I know the pumpkins are supposed to be orange. But for some reason the tiny, minuscule amount of rebellion that I have in me comes out and I can never seem to bring myself to do it. So, this year, I chose pink for our porch instead. Mostly because I stumbled upon some pretty pink mums at the nursery down the road, and once I saw them, I couldn't not buy them, so that decided it. A pink fall porch it would be. As a tom-boy hobby farmer raised on an acreage, I typically am not drawn to pink. ere is no pink in my interior décor and I have maybe one pink sweater in my wardrobe. Maybe my inner girly-ness must come out in places like my front porch. And since the porch area isn't even IN the house, I figured I could get away with the pink out here. Plus, as I mentioned, pink in the fall is a safe area for me to be kind of rebellious and unexpected. For the front door I whipped up a DIY wreath using faux pink and cream-colored hydrangeas, little blush roses and I am a huge fan of eucalyptus, so I added some in as well. On our steps, I decided to go with a mix of mostly white pumpkins with a few small orange pumpkins mixed it. A cute farmhouse sign and some lanterns. Our porch may be small, but it has been so fun to add a few simple touches to it for each season! Do you like to decorate with traditional fall colors or are you rebellious like me? I’d love to hear from you or even see a photo of your fall decor at [email protected] Krista Cunningham Advertising & Marketing Guru, Hobby Farmer, Country Girl 360-735-4583 HOMES columbianhomes.com FOR SALE FOR RENT HOME SERVICES
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When everything shut down in the early days of the pandemic Lauren Aldous says many Realtors® were left wondering,
“What are we supposed to do now?”She describes the initial lockdown as a refl ective and emotional time due to the uncertainty of what impact COVID-19 would have on the real estate market.“So we’re all at home sanitizing everything and you have time to go through levels of emotions like depression, sadness, doom and gloom,” she said. “No one has ever lived through this and no one knows what to do. It’s all very scary.”She says spent the fi rst week or two lying on the couch worrying for herself as well as those she knew who were sick. She also says she contemplated the world and life while asking herself serious questions like, “Will I ever be able to work again? Will anyone be able to afford a house?”“It was a real ‘Come to Jesus’ moment for me,” Lauren said. “I started thinking, ‘what is it in my life that I wish I would have done?’”What she realized is that she wished she could have helped more people. Like many other buyer’s agents Lauren Aldous loves helping people fi nd their dream
home. But another aspect of the business Lauren realized she also enjoys is helping other agents.“I started thinking about what’s lacking in brokerages,” she said. “I assisted new agents out there who were left not knowing what to do.”She thought back to when she fi rst started out in bigger brokerages and remembered how diffi cult it was. “There’s no one there to help, no one there to tell you anything,” she said. “You’re told things like ‘work your sphere’ but what does that even mean? They expect you to already know what that means.”This brought her to a big decision: Lauren decided to start her own real estate brokerage.“I started studying what it means to actually teach others how to do well in sales, what to say, what not to say, there’s so much involved,” she said. “I did the research, pros and cons, why brokerages fail, thought out all those equations.”Despite the challenges to opening a
brokerage during a global pandemic with everyone working remotely, Lauren was able to complete the licensing requirements and open Urban Avenue Realty within just a few months.She says she wants to keep her brokerage small. Right now she has just two agents following her with another potential two on the way. She says business for her new brokerage is going well.“We’re so busy right now it’s astonishing,” she said. “It’s one of the busiest years I’ve ever had. In between helping buyers I’m also training and teaching new agents negotiating tactics and how to get clients what they want for best possible price.”She also believes that teaching agents to work well with other agents is important. “If we can’t work well with other agents then we’re not giving clients the proper service,” Lauren said. “The home buyers and sellers are the end result of who we’re helping but if we can produce caring and customer service-oriented agents that is my number one goal.”Above all, Lauren says she wants to be the brokerage that helps people in a positive way with true genuine care for clients.“They are not commissions walking around on two feet. They are people,” she said. “People need more help and I want to be the person to help.”
October 4, 2020
New on the Market: Custom 4 Bedroom in Camas with stunning view of the river! SEE PAGE F5
Over 40+ Homes in today’s Homes for Sale Directory.SEE PAGES F6 – F7
For today’s Classifi eds & Jobs sectionSEE PAGES F9 & F10
NW Natural New Homes Tour happening this weekend!SEE PAGE F3
Division that Multiplies (Our Plants).SEE PAGE F8
LOCAL REALTOR®STARTS HER OWN BROKERAGE DURING GLOBAL PANDEMIC
by KRISTIN DORSETT, Special Features Writer, The Columbian
C: 360.607.4100 [email protected] USA-Relocate.com
#1 Broker in Pacific NW, #5 Broker in the U.S., #26 Broker in the World 2017 Stats
TERRIE’S REAL ESTATE EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE ARE UNMATCHED!
Premier OR & WA Broker
A LEADER IN REAL ESTATE
Thinking of Selling? I Have Buyers!
Text or Call me, I answer my phone!
A Simple Fall Front PorchI have always been a rule follower. I'm the only girl with two brothers, so I think that comes with the territory. For those of you who know me, I don’t think this comes as a surprise.But most years when it comes to fall decor, I just can't bring myself to follow the rules. I know it's supposed to be yellow and brown and red. I know the pumpkins are supposed to be orange. But for some reason the tiny, minuscule amount of rebellion that I have in me comes out and I can never seem to bring myself to do it.
So, this year, I chose pink for our porch instead. Mostly because I stumbled upon some pretty pink mums at the
nursery down the road, and once I saw them, I couldn't not buy them, so that decided it. A pink fall porch it would be.As a tom-boy hobby farmer raised on an acreage, I typically am not drawn to pink. There is no pink in my interior décor and I have maybe one pink sweater in my wardrobe. Maybe my inner girly-ness must come out in places like my front porch. And since the porch area isn't even IN the house, I figured I could get away with the pink out here.
Plus, as I mentioned, pink in the fall is a safe area for me to be kind of rebellious and unexpected.For the front door I whipped up a DIY wreath using faux pink and cream-colored hydrangeas, little blush roses and I am a huge fan of eucalyptus, so I added some in as well.On our steps, I decided to go with a mix of mostly white pumpkins with a few small orange pumpkins mixed it. A cute farmhouse sign and some lanterns. Our porch may be small, but it has been so fun to add a few simple touches to it for each season!Do you like to decorate with traditional fall colors or are you rebellious like me? I’d love to hear from you or even see a photo of your fall decor at [email protected]
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A P R O D U C T O F T H E C O L U M B I A N ’ S A D V E R T I S I N G D E P A R T M E N T
By SUSAN COX, WSU Clark County Extension Master Gardener
DIVISION
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When we plant perennials, we sometimes expect them to just continue as planted without much intervention from us. In some cases that works, but in others the plant’s continued grow th produces overcrowded condit ions that weaken the plant through competit ion for l ight , water and nutrients.
First do your research. While some perennials love to be divided ,
others won’t tolerate it.
s the plant becomes more stressed, �lowering will reduce, the foliage color may fade and
the new stem structures will be smaller and weaker. What can you do? Explore the possibilities of division! Not only will you refresh your plants, you’ll multiply them as well by dividing them into more plants.
First do your research. While some perennials love to be divided, others won’t tolerate it.
If the plant can be divided, the next question is when. In general, the best time to divide a perennial is when it’s at its peak of health, before it is weakened by competition; the divisions will be healthiest and most likely to recover quickly and thrive.
Though it is often suggested that plants be divided every three years, it actually varies from plant to plant. Chrysanthemums can be divided annually, and other plants that are
growing vigorously may also need more frequent division.
Most sources recommend dividing spring �lowering perennials in the fall and fall �lowering perennials in the spring, but this isn’t a hard and fast rule. Dividing needs to be done after the plant has �lowered, since the plant is no longer putting energy into vegetative growth and instead is focused on root growth.
The most important point is to insure you do your division and replanting at least six and prefer-ably eight weeks before the �irst frost. This allows them time to establish good root structure before the freezing and thawing of winter pushes plants with unestablished roots up out of the soil and dries them out, stressing and usually killing the plant.
Don’t divide on warm sunny days. This will unnecessarily stress the plants by drying out the roots. Wait for cooler, wetter weather, and if it hasn’t been raining recently, be sure to water the day prior to dividing. Try to divide in the morning on a cloudy day for the least stress.
Before you do any dividing, thoroughly prepare for what you intend to do next with the divisions. If you are replanting them in the ground, prepare the bed where you will place them. If you are potting them, get the pots and planting medium ready. Your goal is to
minimize the length of time that those tender roots will be exposed to air, resulting in dehydration.
If you must divide, but won’t be able to plant or pot immediately, wrap the root ball with wet burlap or cover it with damp mulch and place it in a shady place. Keep it moistened. In this circumstance, it may be advisable to cut the top growth of the plant back to about six inches to reduce water loss through the leaves.
In order to divide successfully, �irst identify the type of root system your perennial has, since each requires a slightly different approach.
Clumping root systems are compact and usually thick and intertwined. Offset shoots can be snapped off or the denser crown can be cut apart using a sharp implement (spade, knife, machete, etc.), ensuring you have sizable enough chunks for each to have a few buds and suf�icient root structure attached. This works for plants like Hosta, Asters, Echinacea and Coreopsis.
Plants with taproots like Euphorbia or Poppies (Papaver) can also be split apart after ensuring each piece has a viable root structure.
Spreading root systems can be surface or underground. The new shoots will already be somewhat separate with individual root structures. Simply separate the shoots from the mother plant by cutting between the plants. Surface rooted plants include Sedums, Monarda and Rudbeckia, while underground running rooted plants include Anemones and Geraniums.
Similarly, plants with woody root structures form new plants where the
woody branches rest against the soil. These can also be cut apart from the main plant. Examples include Phlox, Lavender and Candytuft.
Finally, rhizomes differ from other root structures in that the plants are growing from an underground stem with nodes that branch out shoots and roots. Plants that grow from rhizomes, like Canna Lilies, Ginger and Bearded Iris, can be cut into individual pieces with nodes and root structure attached.
Once you’re done, plant the divisions right away. Use a hole twice as wide as the root ball and slightly deeper. If you must use fertilizer, make it one low in nitrogen and don’t use nitrogen until the following year – nitrogen encourages vegetative growth at the expense of root growth. Place the plant so it is slightly higher than the surface, so that it will end up at the soil line after �irming the soil and watering.
Leave the original soil on the root ball and �ill carefully all the way around it, tamping the soil �irmly to avoid air pockets. Water well and keep it watered over the following weeks. If you divide in fall, mulch thickly after the ground freezes. You’re not trying to keep the ground from freezing; instead, you want to keep the bed frozen to avoid damaging the transplants as the ground heaves in a thaw and freeze cycle.
Properly done, division will help you keep your perennials healthy and lush, and it will multiply the number of plants in your landscape as you spread the bounty throughout your yard.
Early 1970s at The ColumbianDemand for The Columbian
commercial printing grew rapidly in the ‘70s and by 1976 an additional press was added. Two years later,
The Columbian purchased and remodeled the building just west
of the main facility and moved the commercial presses to that location.
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